AP World History: Modern - Speed Review Flashcards

Flashcards for AP World History review, covering key concepts from 1200 to the present, including global interactions, empires, revolutions, and globalization.

What is the focus of the Global Tapestry unit in AP World History?

A review of different peoples and cultures from six different AP Regions from 1200-1450.

What are some key aspects of East Asia during the period of 1200-1450?

Song China, Confucianism, Buddhism, Civil Service Exam, Champa Rice, Filial Piety, Grand Canal

What characterized Dar al-Islam during 1200-1450?

Fall of the Abbasid Caliphate, House of Wisdom, Algebra, Medicine and Philosophy, Start of Turkic rule, Sufism

What are some key features of South and Southeast Asia from 1200-1450?

Delhi Sultanate, Hinduism and Buddhism, Bhakti Movement, Sufism, Buddhist and Hindu states

What characterized the Americas between 1200-1450?

Incan Empire, Aztec Empire, Mayan City States, Mit’a System, Incan Road, Human Sacrifice, Chinampa, Tenochtitlan

What were some significant aspects of Africa during the period of 1200-1450?

Great Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Mali, Timbuktu, Salt and Gold, Islam, Ibn Battuta, Swahili, Mansa Musa, Camel Caravans

What characterized Europe between 1200-1450?

Feudalism, Manorialism, Serfdom, Crusades, Black Death, Marco Polo

What is the skills focus on Comparison for Unit 1?

Explain relevant similarities and differences between state building in different AP regions.

What is the skills focus on Continuity and Change for Unit 1?

Describe a pattern of continuity and/or change in one of the AP regions from 1200-1450.

What is the major focus of Unit 2: Networks of Exchange (1200-1450)?

The connectivity of Afro-Eurasia via major trade routes, including cultural and environmental consequences, and the Mongols.

What characterized the Silk Roads during 1200-1450?

Kashgar/Samarkand, Caravanserai, Paper Money, Flying Cash, Banking, Porcelain, Chinese Iron/Steel

What characterized the Mongol Empire during the period of 1200-1450?

Genghis Khan, Khanates, Cultural Transfers of medical knowledge/numbering, Steppe, Bubonic Plague

What characterized Exchanges in the Indian Ocean from 1200-1450?

Gujarat/Malacca, Diaspora, Monsoon winds, Compass, Ming Admiral Zhenghe

What characterized the Trans-Saharan Trade Routes during the period of 1200-1450?

Caravans, Camel Saddles, Mali, Islam, Mansa Musa, Gold and Salt, Timbuktu, Caravanserai

What were the Cultural Consequences of trade routes during the period 1200-1450?

Spread of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam, Spread of Paper and Gunpowder, Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo

What were the Environmental Consequences of trade routes between 1200-1450?

Bubonic Plague, Champa rice, Citrus fruits, Sugar

What characterized the Manchu Empire during the period of 1450-1750?

Gunpowder, Qing, Kangxi, Imperial Portraits, Civil Service Exam, Banner System, Queue, Neo-Confucianism

What characterized the Songhai Empire during the period of 1450-1750?

Islam, Askia Muhammad, Gao, Trans-Saharan

What characterized the Aztec Empire during the period of 1450-1750?

Tenochtitlan, Human Sacrifice, Chinampas

What characterized the Ottoman Empire from 1450-1750?

Gunpowder, 1453, Istanbul, Devshirme, Janissaries, Tax Farming, Millet System, Sunni Islam, Alhambra Decree, Miniatures, Battle of Chaldiran

What characterized the Safavid Empire from 1450-1750?

Gunpowder, Shi’a Islam, Battle of Chaldiran

What characterized the Mughal Empire from 1450-1750?

Gunpowder, Divine Faith, Sikhism, Zamindars, Taj Mahal, Marathas

What is the skill focus on Comparison for Unit 3?

Compare the methods by which various empires increased their influence from 1450 to 1750.

What is the skill focus on Continuity and Change for Unit 3?

Explain the continuities and changes within the various belief systems from 1450-1750.

What new Technology emerged during the period of 1450-1750?

Caravel, Fluyts, Prevailing Winds, Astronomical charts, Astrolabe, Compass, Lateen Sails

What characterized the Portuguese Empire from 1450-1750?

Trading Post Empire, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Brazil/Angola/Indian Ocean, Cash Crops, Spice Islands

What characterized the Spanish Empire from 1450-1750?

Reconquista, Viceroyalties, Aztecs/Incas, Encomiendas, Castas, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Vodun, Potosi

What characterized Trading Companies during the period of 1450-1750?

Joint Stock Company, Dutch V.O.C., Indonesia, British East India Co., Spice Trade (Nutmeg, Pepper)

What characterized the Columbian Exchange from 1450-1750?

Exchange of plants, animals, diseases when East met West, Potatoes, Sugar, Smallpox, Okra, Rice

What is the skill focus on Causation for Unit 4?

Explain the causes of the Columbian Exchange and its effects on the Eastern/Western Hemispheres.

What is the skill focus on Continuity and Change for Unit 4?

Explain how economic developments in this period affected social structures over time.

What characterized the Enlightenment during the period of 1750-1900?

State of Nature, Reason, Religious Tolerance, Natural Rights, Social Contract, Suffrage, Feminism, Abolition

What characterized Nationalism and Revolution during the period of 1750-1900?

Liberalism, Nationalism, American/ Haitian/Latin American Revolutions, Declaration, Jamaica Letter

What characterized the Industrial Beginnings during the period of 1750-1900?

in Great Britain, Urbanization, Agricultural Revolution, Coal/Iron, Private Property, Factory System

How did Industrialization spread from 1750-1900?

Spread to Europe, US, and Russia, Trans-Siberian RR, Asian/African manufacturing decline

What Governments were involved in Industrialization from 1750-1900?

Me i Restoration, Cotton in Egypt, Self-Strengthening Movement, Tanzimat Reforms

What characterized the Industrial Economics during the period of 1750-1900?

Adam Smith, Capitalism, Laissez-faire, Trans-National Businesses. HSBC, Unilever, Stock Markets

What were the reactions to Industrialization from 1750-1900?

Reforms, Karl Marx and Communism

What characterized Industrial Society from 1750-1900?

Middle and Working Class, Domesticity

What is the skill focus on Comparison for Unit 5?

Explain the extent to which industrialization brought change from 1750 to 1900.

What is the skill focus on Contextualization for Unit 5?

Explain the intellectual and ideological context to the Atlantic Revolutions from 1750 to 1900.

What were the Rationales for Imperialism from 1750-1900?

Social Darwinism, White Man’s Burden, “civilizing mission”, Nationalism, Religious conversion

What characterized State Expansion from 1750-1900?

Non-state to state control, Growth of US and Japanese Empires, Berlin Conference, Settler Colony, Congo

What were some Indigenous Responses to imperialism from 1750-1900?

Growth of Nationalism, Tupac Amaru, Sepoy Rebellion 1857, Yaa Asantewaa, Xhosa Cattle Killing

What Imperial Economics developed between 1750-1900?

Export economies, Rubber, Palm Oil, Guano, Opium Wars, Economic Imperialism, Banana Republics

What is the skill focus on Causation for Unit 6?

Explain the relative significance of the effects of imperialism from 1750 to 1900.

What is the skill focus on Causation regarding ideologies for Unit 6?

Explain how ideologies contributed to the development of imperialism from 1750 to 1900.

What shifting powers were present in the period of 1900-1945?

Land-based and Maritime empires give way to new states, Mexico, Qing, Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire

What were the Causes of WWI?

Militarism, competition for resources, intense nationalism, alliances, regional conflicts, imperialist expansion

What Interwar Economics emerged between WWI and WWII?

Stock Market Crash, Great Depression, New Deal, Five Year Plans, Fascist Corporatist Economy

What were the Causes of WWII?

Failures of the Treaty of Versailles, Great Depression, Aggressive militarism in Japan and Nazi Germany

What Mass Atrocities occurred during the period of 1900-1945?

Holocaust, Genocide, Ethnic violence, Armenians, Holodomor (Ukraine), Cambodia, Rwanda

What is the skill focus on Causation for Unit 7?

Explain the relative significance of the causes of the global conflicts in the period 1900 to present.

What characterized The Cold War?

Yalta Conference, Marshall Plan, Containment, Truman Doctrine, Deterrence, Non-aligned Movement, M.A.D.

What were the Effects of the Cold War?

N.A.T.O., Warsaw Pact, Nuclear Proliferation, Proxy Wars, Korean Conflict, Contras, Partition of Germany, Cuban Missile Crisis

What characterized the Spread of Communism?

Chinese Civil War, Chinese Communist Party (C.C.P.), Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Vietnam Conflict, Land and Resource Redistribution

What characterized Decolonization?

Nationalist leaders sought independence, negotiated vs. armed independence, Ghana, India, Vietnam

What new Technology emerged after 1900?

Radio, Internet, Birth Control, Petroleum, Nuclear; Green Revolution, GMOs, Vaccine/Antibiotics

What was the state of the Environment after 1900?

Climate change, Deforestation, Greenhouse gasses

What Economic shift occurred after 1900?

Free Market Economics=Economic liberalization, Knowledge Economies vs. Manufacturing Economies

What Calls for Reform emerged after 1900?

UN Declaration of Human Rights, Negritude, Feminism, Suffrage, Civil Rights, End of Apartheid, Greenpeace

What characterized Culture after 1900?

Consumerism, Reggae, Bollywood, Social Media, BBC

What was the Resistance to Globalizational after 1900?

Anti-IMF, Anti-World Bank, Weibo

What were the Global Institutions after 1900?

Failed League of Nations, United Nations

What is the skill focus on Continuity and Change for Unit 9?

Explain the extent to which science/technology brought change in this period.

What is the skill focus on Causation for Unit 9?

Explain the causes and effects of environmental changes in the period 1900 to present.